Quotes with suffering

Quotes 141 till 156 of 156.

  • Ben Okri When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Carolyn McCarthy With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that.
    Carolyn McCarthy
    American nurse and politician (1944 - )
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  • Buddha Without health life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Franz Kafka You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson You cannot do wrong without suffering wrong.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • John Ciardi You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
    John Ciardi
    American teacher, poet, writer (1916 - 1986)
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  • Angela Carter You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
    Angela Carter
    British author (1940 - 1992)
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  • Albert Pike Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Helen Keller Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Basil Hume Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
    Basil Hume
    English Roman Catholic bishop (1923 - 1999)
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  • Catharine Esther Beecher How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.
    Catharine Esther Beecher
    American educator
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  • Simone Weil Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Aristotle Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Simone Weil Whenever a human being, through the commission of a crime, has become exiled from good, he needs to be reintegrated with it through suffering. The suffering should be inflicted with the aim of bringing the soul to recognize freely some day that its infliction was just.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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